The United States is a textbook tyranny. The techniques it has used towards governing (controlling) its people are essentially the same used by the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and East Germany. For instance, in the Soviet Union, those clergymen allowed to practice were oftentimes undercover spies, spying for the Communist Party. Here is a long list of secret police agencies in the Soviet Union. The US borrowed former Nazis (and put them back in power) for what historians write-off as "practical" purposes at the end of World War II and onset of the Cold War....